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The Guildford town centre area runs from Thorneycroft Wood and Parsonage Water Meadows to the north, to Warren Road in the east, through Shalford Park to East Shalford Lane to the south, and down Dapdune Wharf and along Farnham Road to the west.

Top five reported crimes in Guildford town centre area

In the Onslow and university area, as described by Surrey Police , there were 81 crimes reported in September, with 22 of these violent and sexual offences and 24 antisocial behaviour.

The total crime figure is up from September 2016, when 70 offences were reported. Of these 24 were violent and sexual offences and 21 was antisocial behaviour.

A spokesman for Surrey Police moved to explain the figures, which can be found on the police.uk website.

Top five crimes reported in Onslow and university area

He said: "We caution against using the data to compare the number of crimes between different policing areas, as the website makes no effort to correct for how many people live in the area, how densely populated the area is, how big the area is or what type of area it is (rural areas will suffer different crimes to urban areas).

"In some cases, due to the Home Office rules used to categorise a crime, a single incident can be recorded as multiple crimes if there are multiple victims."

Onslow Village Recreation ground, off Wilderness Road, Onslow Village

The spokesman continued: "The crime data is accurate as at the time and date the website is visited – incidents can be reviewed long after the event and this can lead to them being categorised differently at different times.

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"It is also useful to understand a little about how the data is collated - the website divides the UK into a large number of pre-agreed anonymous points - typically the middle of a field, waterway or road – to prevent victim identification.

"Each recorded crime is assigned to the nearest of these pre-agreed points, but in sparsely populated areas this can be a substantial distance from where the crime actually occurred."

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